Policy, Research & Politics
The Israeli and Palestinian heavy metal bands head-banging for Middle East peace
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- Monday, 17 February 2014
Many Israelis and Palestinians have long felt as if they have been knocking their heads against a brick wall in the pursuit of a solution to their conflict.
Tunisian B-Boys’ Biggest Battle: Keeping Youths From Extremism
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- Monday, 17 February 2014
"It is important the youth are acculturated, and then they can go towards the Salafis, and that is O.K. If you don't have that, you become a kid with nothing, and alienated in society."
Syria: Music banned in northern province
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- Tuesday, 11 February 2014
In a statement, the organisation The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has "banned music and songs in cars, at parties, in shops and in public, as well as photographs of people in shop windows," warning that "whoever violates these rules will subject themselves to the necessary Sharia punishment."
Angola: Culture Minister Wants Youth to Invest in Semba Music Style
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- Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva, reaffirmed on Sunday in Luanda the need for young Angolan musicians to invest strongly and seriously in the preservation of the music style of Semba, characteristic of the country as a way to keep it in the spotlight.
The European Parliament adopts new regulation facilitating transport of musical instruments in cabins
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- Tuesday, 11 February 2014
On the 5 February 2014, the European Parliament adopted the text reviewing community regulation 2027/97, certain provisions of which aim to facilitate the transport of musical instruments on board planes as hand luggage.
Pete Seeger fostered change through the power of song
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- Monday, 03 February 2014
America's tuning fork. That is what writer and poet Carl Sandburg called Pete Seeger, the gangly banjo-strumming folk singer who provided the music that told a nation's story and invoked a people's conscience.
Role of Music in Kenya's Liberation
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- Thursday, 30 January 2014
Conceptually, the project is a tribute to the role of musicians in fostering change in Kenya and debunking the notion that only politicians have driven that process.
UN Special Rapporteur requested to discuss Tibet with Chinese government
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- Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Freemuse has requested the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights, Ms Farida Shaheed, to discuss the imprisonment of nine Tibetan singers with Chinese government.
Persian instruments on TV!
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- Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Last Saturday, Iranian people were taken by surprise in a strange way. For many of them it was the first time they had seen such instruments on national television.
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